Baurutitan
Field photograph to come
Baurutitan
DV-0563
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Kellner et al. 2005
Field notes
About Baurutitan
Baurutitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 4 finds of Baurutitan, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Serra da Galga Formation. It was named by Kellner et al. in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Aeolosaurini.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. W. A. Kellner, D. d. A. Campos, and M. N. F. Trotta. 2005. Description of a titanosaurid caudal series from the Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63(3):529-564